Companies, where driving plays a significant role in their day-to-day business, which choose to implement vehicle tracking are often worried about the reaction their employees will have when they discover they are being tracked.
Fleet managers, and officers in charge of fleets, often fear potential friction between management and drivers. Apart from presenting tracking technology with a positive spin and setting up incentive programs to win drivers over, you might also consider focussing on just how gps tracking can actually benefit both drivers and employees, and subsequently the company as a whole.
Here are a few points that might help your staff into accepting the new technology, more readily.
#1 – Vehicle tracking helps resolve driver disputes
Be it a traffic violation, an accident, or even something like a driver not showing up where he was supposed to, gps tracking can be used as proof of location and speed in the event of a fine, or in order to defend drivers who are wrongfully accused of incidents.
In any of these eventualities, vehicle tracking is a reliable source of evidence for the defence of drivers.
#2 – Vehicle tracking helps drivers’ jobs become more secure
Companies who use tracking are able to achieve more efficiency; by exploiting the technology, and the data it provides, they can make better informed decisions and cut costs. This strengthens job security and leaves more potential for drivers’ rewards and incentives.
#3 – Vehicle tracking leads to increased driver safety
The adoption of a vehicle tracking system makes company employees safer in a variety of ways:
-
- tracking technology offers information on the driving style of employees by detecting excessive speeding and sharp braking: a useful aid to eliminating dangerous behaviour;
-
- with GPS tracking, companies get maintenance alerts that, when incorporated into an efficient vehicle maintenance programme, lower vehicle downtime and provide safer vehicles for drivers;
-
- GPS tracking notifications help management and employees prevent the cost and inconvenience of theft;
-
- all the data, companies can gather from this technology, can positively contribute to further driver training, continuous assessment and overall improvement.
